Environmental News

While many of our familiar songbird species are in decline, one avian character in particular has been spotted increasingly frequently in UK gardens – the goldfinch.

The Fortingall yew in Perthshire has started to produce red berries, suggesting a change of sex in one of its branches. It’s an unusual – but not unprecedented – switch

Imagine the scene: the chairman of Shell UK, Erik Bonino, sitting alongside Lee-Anne Barraclough, Shell’s VP of communications, over a Pret a Manger takeaway at Shell’s offices in London.

Member states report a 23% drop since 1990, but the pace is slowing and several countries have missed renewable and energy efficiency targets

Details unveiled of deal signed between state-owned companies from China and France to build world’s most expensive plant on UK soil An inflatable elephant with a message addressed to the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, saying that Hinkley Point nuclear power station would be “a bad investment” for the Chinese state, is set up in an…

This week NWF is celebrating National Wildlife Refuge Week. Wildlife refuges are some of the most important protected areas for wildlife in the country.

Ryedale district council calls for five-year fracking ban in reponse to a consultation on Third Energy’s application to drill for gas in the area

With its spectacular jade waters ringed by ochre red volcanic hills, Lake Turkana, a desert lake in Kenya’s rugged northerly corner provided a wonderful spot for Dutchman Willem Dolleman’s annual fishing expeditions in his adopted homeland.

This year’s Tour of Britain was packed with top cyclists such as Bradley Wiggins, but Peter Kimpton found an alternative way of joining the race – from the passenger seat of a support car

Washington-based Center for Global Development predicts 289m hectares (714m acres) of tropical forests will be felled by 2050 based on current trends